NBC - Trump Says Media Don't Cover Terrorism; Archives Say They Do

[TomCADem]

I think a much stronger argument can be made that the media is reluctant to cover hate crimes against religious and racial minorities as hate crimes as noted in the NY Times project, "Documenting Hate."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/opinion/why-we-need-a-project-to-document-hate-crimes.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2FThis%20Week%20in%20Hate&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&module=Collection&region=Marginalia&src=me&version=column&pgtype=article

Reliable data on hate crimes is hard to come by. As reports of racist, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic harassment and attacks poured in after the election of Donald Trump, many Americans wondered whether they represented a nationwide increase in hate crime. While the Southern Poverty Law Center saw a dramatic increase in reports after the election, it’s not yet clear whether this indicates a nationwide trend.

That’s one reason This Week in Hate is joining with ProPublica and a coalition of other organizations to work on Documenting Hate, a project that aims to gather data on hate crimes and incidents of bias around the country. Documenting Hate will analyze information from law enforcement, news reports, nonprofit groups and individuals in order to investigate topics like how many hate crimes occur annually, which parts of the country have the highest prevalence and whether the frequency or severity of hate crimes has changed since the election of Mr. Trump. This Week in Hate and several news organizations will publish results from those investigations.

Of course, we all know that the White House is trying to create an atmosphere of hate and fear to justify his persecution of Muslims. Nonetheless, NBC fact checked Trump's claim and came up with some clear facts show that acts of terrorism are well and routinely covered.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-media-dont-cover-terrorism-archives-say-they-do/ar-AAmGscv?li=BBnb7Kz

President Donald Trump waded into alternative fact land Monday and made the easily disprovable claim that the media "doesn't want to report" on terrorist attacks involving Islamic radicals.

"Radical Islamic terrorists are determined to strike our homeland, as they did on 9/11, as they did from Boston to Orlando to San Bernardino and all across Europe," Trump declared at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. "It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported, and in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it."

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A perusal of the archives revealed that NBC News covered 57 of the attacks on the list, which resulted in the deaths if 745 people — including the Paris terrorist attacks in November 2015, which killed 130 people, left more than 400 others wounded and resulted in hundreds of stories.

By contrast, the 21 attacks NBC News did not cover were smaller incidents in places like Egypt, Bosnia or Bangladesh, resulting in the deaths of just eight people, total. In a number of these incidents the suspects were described only as "unidentified" or "unidentified ISIL" operatives.

[Hoyt]

1. They cover Trump and his supporters, all a significant threat

[Cha]

2. Just because the trumps had their heads up their collective ass..

the rest of us saw it covered extensively.. they were American Terrorists.

[MFM008]

3. are you kidding?

They cover it ad nauseum.